Definitions for altiloquent

He remembered that the politeness seemed too elaborate, too florid, altiloquent to the extent of insincerity.Holman Day, All-Wool Morrison

The meaning of the music was made further explicit by explanations in his own, altiloquent (but purposefully avoiding the technical) Wagnerian prose, wrapped solicitously around the Goethe passages.Alessandra Comini, The Changing Image of Beethoven